Combination building.



No. 723,426. PA'IBNTBD MAR. 24, 190s.

I..'B.VALK.

COMBINATION BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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No. 723,426. PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1903.A

L. B. VALK. COMBINATION BUILDING.

AAPPLIOATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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PATENTED MAR. 24, 1903.

L. B. VALK.

COMBINATION BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAURENCE BOLTON VALK, OF1 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINATION BUILDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,426, dated March24, 1903.

I Application iiled November 4, i901. Serial No. 81,045. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LAURENCE BOLTON VALK, ofthe city of Los Angeles, inthe cou nty of Los Angeles, in the State of California, haveY invented acertain new or Improved Combination Edifice Adapted for-Use forEcclesiastical orv Religious and Scholastic Purposes, of which thefollowing isa full, clear, and exact description or specication,reference being had to the annexed sheets of drawings and to the lettersmarked thereon.

My said invention, which relates to a new or improved combination ofstructures to be used for ecclesiastical or religious purposes and foreducational purposes, consists of an edifice which is seated and dividedinto aislesV and with or without transept-s after the manner of a churchand which constitutes the nave or front part of the edifice, and anotheredifice which constitutes the apse or rear part of the building, the twoedifices being cornbined into one structure andvhaving between them aplatform extending completely across the edifice which can be used forthe several offices or practices of ecclesiastical or religiousceremonial as well as for the Vperformance of any religious rites upon,while when not in such use the said platform is adaptedfor being used asone fioor, upon which are arranged the tables or desks and seats for'speaker or teachers and others who address an audience or attend to orcarry on educational dnties in respect of the pupils or studentswhooccupy the class-rooms, which are arranged in circular form,occupyingthe circular part of the apse or segmentally-formed rear partof the edifice, and these class-rooms so arranged constitute anessential feature of my present invention. The platform is pro videdwith a rood-screen and sliding panels, as hereinafter described.

It is to be understood that the arrangement hereinbefore described maybe applied both to a ground-floor and to a basement, as well as togalleries, of an edific econstructed and arranged according to thisinventionand that this invention includes all such modifications orvariations as are or may be comprised within the limits or scope of mypresent invention.

Upon the annexed drawings, Figure l is a ground plan of an edificeconstructed accord- Fig. 2 is a gallery plan of the'sai'd edifice.gitudinal section of the same.

Upon the annexed drawings the nave of the building'is marked A, and therear chamber or apse is marked B, while the parts marked B B' aretransepts; but these constitute no essential part of my invention andmaybe dispensed with. Across the space where the nave A and the apse Bmeet there is a platform C, and, this platform C is com- Inon to boththe nave A and apse B, and this platform C, in combination with the naveA and apse B and extending completely across the edifice, is anessential feature of my present invention. The purpose for placing theplatform C in the position where the nave A and apse B meet istwofold-namely, to enable a speaker when addressing an audience in` thenave A to; place himself in such position on the platform C that he canaddress an audience in thenave A Wholly by placing himself in suchposition as to correspond to -the position marked E' in Figs. 1 and 2and when requiring to address an'audience in the apse B only he canlocate himself on that part of the platform C nearer to and facing theaudience inthe apse B on the opposite side ofthe rood-screen, (markedD.)

rlhe segmental'part of the apse B is constructed with severalclass-rooms E E E, &c., which are arranged in a radial relationship toeach other and so that they all focus toward the speaker on the apsefocus position of the platform C,so that not only is the speakers voicedistinctly heard in all the classrooms E El E, but the occupants of anyor all ot' the class-rooms can equally behold the speaker. Thisarrangement or construction of the class-rooms constitutes an essentialfeature of my present invention.

Another essential feature of my present invention consists inconstructing the roodscreen D with vertically-sliding panels F F betweenthe columns, so that these panels may be kept closed when either thenave A or the apse B are to be `used separately, or these panels F F maybe Opened when the nave and apse are to be used jointly-that is to say,as a single andience-chamber-and in which case the length of theplatform C euables a speaker to occupy a lateral position IOO on theplatform A-such, for example, as the position marked Gin Figs. l and2-and when such position is taken up by a speaker the speakers voice isaudible throughout the nave A and apse B thus combined and opened intoone or a single chamber.

It is to be understood that the arrangement and constructionhereinbefore described and shown upon Fig. l of the drawings is equallyapplicable to the gallery plan shown at Fig. 2 of the drawings and thatthe arrangement is such that the entire building may be similax-ly usedwhen the door of each gallery-level is made removable and replaceable.

Having now described the nature of my said invention and the bestsystem, mode, or manner I am at present acquainted with for carrying thesame into practical eect, I desire to observe in conclusion that what Iconsider to be novel and originahand therefore claim as the invention tober secured to me by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. A structure or edifice consisting of the combination of a nave andapse provided with a platform extending completely across the edifice atthe junction of the Vnave and apse,

common to both the nave and apse, and the rood-screen, also extendingcompletely across the platform in the manner and for the purposessubstantially as hereinbefore described.

2. A structure or edifice consisting of the combination ofa nave andapse provided with a platform extending completely across the edice atthe junction of the nave and apse, common to both the nave and apse, andso arranged that in connection with a roodscreen, also extendingentirely across the platform, the nave and apse may be used as separatedaudience-chambers or as one audiencechamber, 'the circular or segmentalpart of the apse being provided with class-roomsfarranged radially,substantially as hereinbefore described.

I n testimony whereof I, the said LAURENCE B. VALK, have hereunto set myhand and seal, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 11thday of October, A. D. 1901.

LAURENCE BOLTON VALK. `[L. 8.]

